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JAMES GOODYEAR, OF YONKEBS, NEWYORK.

IMPRQVEMENT IN MACHlNE$ FQR WINDING BOBBINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. fil dg i, dated August5, 1873; application filed April 212, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES GOODYEAR, formerly of Roehdale, in the countyof Lancaster, England, now residing in Yonkers, in the county ofWestchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Machines for Winding Bobbins, which said improvementswere patented in the Kingdom of Great Britain, dated February 22,1869,1T0. 547, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to machinery for windin g fibrous material,particularly slivers of wool, cotton, flax, &c., on bobbins, andconsists in a novel construction, combination, and arrangement of partswhich have for their object to automatically perform all the functionsnecessary for feeding the bobbins, winding on the material anddelivering them complete, as will be fully set forth hereafter.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the right side of my improved machine. Fig.2 is an eleva- 7 tion of the left side. Fig. 3 is a front elevation.Fig. at is a transverse vertical section taken through the center of themachine. Fig. 5 is the same with the parts in different positions, andFigs. 6, 7, and 8 are parts in detail.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the drawings.

A A represent the side frames of the machine. B represents a shaftcarrying on one end a driving-pulley, G 5 on the other a cam, D, and onits middle a friction-drum, E,which revolves the bobbin. Over the shaftB, in either side frame, are perpendicular guides or ways,

F F, between which the slidesGG are placed' These slides are providedwith disks H H, which serve as the flanges of the bobbin while it isbeing wound. Through the center of the slide G and its disk runs acircular aperture, in which the piston I is reciprocated by the lever J.When at its outer extremity the piston l is guided and supported by thering G, forming part of the slide. The other slide G and its disk has acentral hole drilled in it, through which the pin K passes, and. isreciprocated by the lever L. Immediately over the disk G areperpendicular flanged guides N N, between which the bobbins M M areplaced, one above the other, and from which they are fed into theaperture in the slide, one at a time, each stroke of the piston I. (SeeFigs. 1, 4, 5, and 8.) The levers J L,

' which reciprocate the piston I and pin K, are

L-shaped, and are pivoted at their lower extremity, outside of themachine, to suitable supports, their shorter arms extending inward,where they are coupled at X, so that the operation of the lever L, whichis accomplished by the groove in the cam D,in1parts motion to the leverJ. On the inside of this cam is provided a pin, g, and at eachrevolution this pin depresses the bar B connected to the arm Q, andthrows the ejecting-lever 0 0 forward, it being returned to its positioneither by gravity or by the pin coming in contact with the arm S andthrowing it back. The arm 0 has at its upper extremity a segmental bar,0, shaped as shown in Figs.l,2, and 7, which plays back and forthbetween the flanges H H, and ejects the completed bobbin from be tweenthe flanges to the receiving-flume W'. Between the frame and the drum Ean arm, U, provided with a segmental projection and pin T,is oscillatedby the pin it, on the cam 1) coming in contact with the cam V and movingit forward. Y represents a traverse bar, which receives an oscillatingmotion by any suitable mechanism, and is provided at its upper extremitywith holes, through which the sliver or other material to be wound ispassed. lution of the friction-drum E, which is keyed to the shaft B,and the number of revolutions which it will be necessary for this drumto make to complete the winding on of the material will depend on thethickness of the sliver and the amount desired to be wound on; but itwill generally require much more than one revolution before the woundbobbin is of the required size, and if the cam D were immovably attachedto the shaft B it would operate both the levers J L and withdraw thepiston I and pin K at each revolution of the drum E, irrespective of thesize of the wound bobbin, and therefore to regulate this the cam D isloose on the shaft B, being kept in its place by a collar, i, on itsoutside and a ratchet-wheel, b, on its inside, in which ratchet a pawl,d, pivoted to the cam and provided with an arm,c, is engaged by thespring 0,

The bobbin is revolved by the revoand on the slide G a finger oradjustable stop, a, is arranged, so as to be capable of being adjustedvertically by means of pins or equivalent devices. As the ratchet isaffixed to the shaft and the pawl to the loose cam, the revolution ofthe shaft will carry the cam around, but as the arm 0, which forms a.part of the pawl (1, reaches its upper point, it strikes against thestop a, and the pawl is thrown out of the ratchet, and the revolution ofthe cam consequently stopped, allowing the friction-drum to revolvewithout disturbing the other parts of the machine; but as the winding onproceeds the bobbin increases in diameter and gradually lifts the slidesand flanges in the guides F F, and the stop a, being attached to theslide G, rises along with it until the bobbin has attained its desireddiameter, (which is regulated at pleasure by the stop (0,) when the arm0 of the pawl 01 is released from the stop a, and the spring a throwsthe pawl on the ratchet-wheel b, when the cam is again revolved,throwing out the levers J L, piston I, and pin K, and ejecting thecompletelywound bobbin by the ejecting-lever O 0. (See Fig. 7.) As thepiston I is withdrawn from under the column of bobbins they fall on theseat-G of the slide G, (see Fig. 8,) and as the piston moves forward thelowest one is pushed before it onto the pin K, which meets it and passesthrough its central hole to form its spindle or bearing during winding.(See sectional Figs. 4. and 5.) As the completely-wound bobbin isdelivered to the fiume W a fresh one is brought in position, and the armU, with the pin T, is thrown up by the pin on the cam D coming incontact with the cam V, and the pin T carries up the sliver and throwsit over the fresh bobbin, while any suitable mechanism, not shown in thedrawing, gripes the sliver in front of the bobbin, and as the latterwinds the sliver is separated from the preceding bobbin; or the pin Tmay be provided with points to engage the sliver and separate it fromthe wound bobbin. Thus the operation is continuously and automaticallycarried on. The piston and pin separating, the bobbins drop from thetrough onto the seat of the slide or receiver, and one being introducedon the pin between the disks is wound by the friction-drum till,increasing in diameter, it elevates the stop a above the arm 0, andcauses the parts to be again operated by the cam D' withdrawing the pinK, and plunger 1, ejecting the bobbin by means of the arm 0, throwingthe sliver over the new bobbin and separating the material wound fromthe completed one.

It will be readily perceived that various alterations may be made in thearrangement of the parts of the machine without departing from thespirit of my invention-as, for instance, the bobbin may be held in aspringjaw .on the end of the segmental arm of the lever O, and thusintroduced between the ilangos ll ll, where the pin is pushed throughit, and, when wound, the pin being withdrawn, the succeeding bobbinforces the completelywound one out, thus dispensing with the piston I.

Another modification might be effected by making the friction-drumsufficiently large, and placing slides and flanges, arrangedsubstantially like the top ones, at each side, and having them workhorizontally, thus having three bobbins wound at the same time on onefriction-drum; and yet another modification might be in having anendless belt or a revolvin g wheel to feed the bobbins; or in havin gspindles attached to the bobbin, and work ing in holes in the slides,which are thrown apart when the full bobbin is to be ejected and a freshone inserted in its place.

These would be all embraced by my invention, and might doubtless be usedin practice, as circumstances dictate.

I claim- 1. In combination, the hopper N, receiver G, reciprocatingpiston I, reciprocating pin K, supporting disks or walls H H, andfrictional drum E, constructed and operating to- I gether substantiallyin the manner described.

2. The hopper N, receiver G, disks or walls H H, and supporting-pin K,piston I, and slides G G, in combination with the slotted side frames,constructed and operating substantially in the manner described.

3. The cam D and arm L, combined with and operating the supporting-pinK, substantially in the manner described.

4. The mechanism for discharging the bobbin, consisting of theejecting-arm 0 O and bar R, or the equivalents thereof, constructed andoperating substantially in the manner described and specified.

5. The device for regulating the size or filling of the bobbins,consisting of the camlever and pawl c d, ratchet b, and adjustable stopa, or equivalents, constructed and operating substantially in the mannerdescribed.

6. In combination with the hopper N, receiver G, and disks or walls H H,the ejector O O for automatically discharging the filled bobbin,constructed and operating substantially in the manner described.

7. A machine for automatically winding bobbins having the followingelements, namely, a hopper to receive, hold, and deliver the bobbins, areceiver to receive and hold the bobbin in position to be introducedbetween the supporting-disks H H, a vibrating bearing, K, to support andretain the bobbins properly during winding, a reciprocating piston orplunger, 1, to deliver the bobbin on the supporting-pin, an oscillatingdischarger, O O, and a vibrating lever, U T, to automatically engage thesliver with the empty bobbin, all acting together in co-operativerelation, substantially in the manner described.

JAS. GOQDYEAR.

Witnesses:

O. A. DURGIN, E. H. JOHNSON.

